Parental Descretion Advised - Womens Health

The past week was medical stuff ... due to the fact that my mother had breast cancer I am considered high risk so they (medical professionals) want me to have a mammogram and such every year now since I turned 50.   I don’t like getting an x-ray ... seems counter intuitive to zap yourself with radiation every year to check if you have cancer ... so I have been investigating other options.   During my research I discovered that this technology is used a lot as a diagnostic tool (not just for breast exams) and is reputed to find the potential for tumor growth much earlier than an x-ray and eliminates the radiation factor unless absolutely necessary.

This is kind of personal yet I worry that many women are not aware that they have any other choice outside of the standard mammogram.  So if you need more info here is a link to a website,

http://www.iact-org.org/articles/articles-second-look.html   read this one start to finish as it presents both sides of the story.

I still take the report to my doctor and get a referral for an ultrasound of any suspicious areas, which they always did after the mammogram anyway, now I just skip the mammogram and the radiation.  This is new and controversial but for the earlier treatment alone I believe it is worth investigating.